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Quotes About Transition

Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
~ Wendell Phillips
Every step of progress which the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
~ Wendell Phillips
And what's a butterfly? At best, He's but a caterpillar, drest.
~ John Grey
After the rain cometh the fair weather.
~ Aesop
When one door closes another opens. But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
~ Alexander Graham Bell
It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.
~ Scott Elledge
Retirement: Twice as much husband, half as much pay.
~ Anonymous
Since our boss will be retiring soon, it's been suggested that we give him a little momentum.
~ Anonymous
Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge
The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.
~ Will Rogers
Revolutions are not made; they come.
~ Wendell Phillips
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
~ Napoleon
I was playing it like Willie Wilson, but I forgot that I'm in Clint Hurdle's body.
~ Clint Hurdle
He gets a good hold on the paintbrush, then confidently has the ladder removed.
~ Roger Vaughan
The King is dead! Long live the King!
~ Pardoe
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
~ Jean Paul Richter
Autumn to winter, winter into spring. Spring, into summer, summer into fall, - So rolls the changing year, and so we change; -Motion so swift, we know not that we move.
~ Dinah Mulock Craik
Spring is a virgin, Summer a mother, Autumn a widow, and Winter a stepmother.
~ Polish Proverb
Never think you've seen the last of anything.
~ Eudora Welty
Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.
~ Eric Hoffer
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
~ Emily Dickinson
Who you are is a necessary step to being who you will be.
~ Emmanuel
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
~ Francis Bacon